I love movement, all kinds of movement – I am curious about embodiment. For fun I stand on my hands, climb fabric hanging from eight metre high ceilings, practice yoga, free move to music that gets me feeling tingly. Movement is such a joyful expression – when we move we feel our vitality, our energy, our strength. I move to honour this body and the life running through it. Connecting with our bodies through movement practice of all kinds, immersion in nature, her elements, the landscape, can help us remember that our bodies are wild bodies, our bodies are animal bodies that have evolved over the ages in relationship with the Earth. I have taught yoga for many years and my intention has always been about cultivating a mutually beneficial relationship to the Earth and inspiring others to do the same.

I spent a lot of time in the Jivamukti Yoga lineage, exploring Yogic and Buddhist ideas about how we can be better caretakers of the Earth and reconnect to a sense of wholeness and belonging. I designed many of my classes around cultivating love and devotion for the Earth so that we better protect her. I spent two dangerous summers in Antarctica with Sea Shepherd to protect whales and put my ideals into action.

Yoga practice undoubtedly helps us with our relationships but I still feel a limitation there because, though I can dedicate my asana practice to cultivating a steady and joyful relationship to the earth underneath my seat, I still don’t fully understand the relationships in the wilds of this land I call home. This land I was born to. And so my practice has expanded. I am studying this land. I am getting to know her better. I am becoming more intimate with her and her stories – through study of women’s lore/law, through learning about foraging and edible plants and medicine, through exploration of deep ecology practice, through free movement practice that enlivens me and gives me a sense of freedom, through watching, honouring and returning to conversation with the natural world. And the journey continues.

I grew up running around and exploring the wilds of my hometown. We could amuse ourselves all day, playing with rocks in the creek, running through the long grass in the paddocks, jumping off bridges and rocks into saltwater, getting to know the life that thrives in rockpools. There is a sense of playful wonder and awe about life and the earth when we are children that many of us lose as we grow older. It’s vital that we learn how to reconnect and cultivate that way of interacting with the natural world, for our own health and the health of our life support system.

For all these reasons I have recently started down a new path to step up this work – a company with a fellow wild child, Clare Lovelace, called Wild Child Moves. We aim to facilitate stronger love and connection to this land, the land we call home, through rewilding retreats, free movement workshops, yoga, nature immersion day retreats, deep ecology and community gathering circles/ social picnics. Get in touch if you would like to join us on this journey to deep connection and belonging to this land.

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Workshops, Retreats & Events

Saturday November 17, 10am-5pm

Join Anna for a day retreat exploring deep ecology practice in the stunning Royal National Park. The retreat will take place at Karloo Pools, Heathcote (easily accessible by train). We will walk together down to the pools, find a place to be and discover the nourishing practice of deep ecology, expanding our sense of self.

Saturday December 15, 6-9pm

Sometimes it’s hard to choose between yoga and food, but now you don’t have to! Join Anna Greer and Ayse Moonen for a delicious evening of movement and food, nourishing your body in more ways than one. The night will begin with a yoga class that will wake up your senses and appetite, in the shala at Union St Yoga, and then we will move out into the beautiful courtyard for a magic summer eve banquet.

Friday Feb 15-Sunday Feb 17 2019

When was the last time you felt true belonging?

“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.” ~ Brenè Brown

Our ability to experience true belonging is only equal to our willingness to be vulnerable, to expose our soft heart, to be authentically who we are and stand up for what we believe, even if it means standing alone ‘in the wilderness’. This retreat will explore practices for belonging to our bodies, the earth andcommunity and how we develop a sense of being at home in the world.